Eurobeat by Avex now available on iTunes worldwide except NA

[Rain197]

Available in entire Europe but seem not in North America

Available albums :
SEB 1 to 81, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91~99, 201~205, 207~209, 211~219, 221~229, 231~236
Past 220's, lots of songs can't be bought (227 only have 3)
INSTRUMENTALS ARE ALL AVAILABLE !!!

The Best of Non-Stop Super Eurobeat 2010
Initial D Sound Collection (Legend 1)
Initial D Sound Collection (Legend 2)
Initial D Sound Collection (Legend 3)
Initial D Final Best Collection

SEB presents ayu-ro mix (not sure if it was unavailable before)
SEB presents ayu-ro mix 2 (not sure if it was unavailable before)
ayumi hamasaki RMX WORKS from SUPER EUROBEAT presents ayu-ro mix 3
SEB presents Euro Every Little Thing
SEB presents Sanrio Friends
SEB presents EURO X'mas Special COLLECTION VOL.1 (not sure if it was unavailable before)
SEB presents EURO X'mas Special COLLECTION VOL.2 (not sure if it was unavailable before)
Best of SUPER EURO X'mas

パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜男気200%!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜アガリ度MAX!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜3次系定番!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜THE ネ申曲!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜SEB History〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜隠れ名曲!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜アンコール定番!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜2次系定番!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜超名曲!〜
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT Summer Drive

Igoda - Code:D/Soar the skies (feat. CHLOE) - Single (not sure if it was unavailable before)

Unavailable :
SEB 82, 83, 86, 90, 101 to 199, 200, 206, 210, 220, 230, 237, 238, 239
パラパラオールスターズ pres. SUPER EUROBEAT〜超鉄板王道ヒット!〜

If there's missing albums, tell it in the commentary and i'll add them

[djtt]

Those albums have been on Itunes for a while. Not sure how long as I only started using Itunes and apple Music actively december last year, and I only got into eurobeat this summer.
But when in apple Music, the streaming service, there's quite a few tracks I can't listen to, probably cause they're album only tracks, notably a lot of stuff on the later seb comps from sinclaire.
Still good that quite a lot of it is still available.

[Lebon14]

Available in entire Europe but seem not in North America

Eurobeat by Avex now available on iTunes worldwide

That's NOT worldwide.

[Tiger]

They don't even have the extends on SEB 84 and the like so what's the point -_- Everybody has the SEB edits already.

[Shawaazu]

Notably, I noticed the SEBs are missing the majority of Delta songs.

[Rain197]

Post 200, lots of Hi-NRG's extended songs are missing.
A little from 3B.

I was looking the Japanese iTunes, album art of 210's was changed and no more instrumental

[KiraTM]

First off: Finally a cheap way to get instrumentals! They're almost half the price in German iTunes compared to Japan.

Second thought: What a great coup of avex! Even though the catalogue isn't complete (yet?), people outside Japan can get Eurobeat legally way easier.

Third thing: Those missing songs are probably due to licensing problems. As far as I know, a label signs a contract which allows avex to release their songs in Japan/Asia. They need a new contract for worldwide providing. At least HRG releases many songs by themself. That could explain missing HRG songs.
SCP is doing a similar thing with EuroKudos and Sinclaire currently release one single collection in a lifetime.

[MAITANZA]

First off: Finally a cheap way to get instrumentals! They're almost half the price in German iTunes compared to Japan.

Second thought: What a great coup of avex! Even though the catalogue isn't complete (yet?), people outside Japan can get Eurobeat legally way easier.

Third thing: Those missing songs are probably due to licensing problems. As far as I know, a label signs a contract which allows avex to release their songs in Japan/Asia. They need a new contract for worldwide providing. At least HRG releases many songs by themself. That could explain missing HRG songs.
SCP is doing a similar thing with EuroKudos and Sinclaire currently release one single collection in a lifetime.

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Well said KiraTM. And what do you mean "Licensing problems"?

[KiraTM]

It's teh same as Lebon14 stated in 241 thread.
A label signs a contract to let avex market their songs in Japan/Asia. Thus, they are not allowed to distribute the songs by themselves on other (world-wide) platforms. There are exceptions, though: SCP Music is able to release their post-200 songs by themselves.

We don't know the exact conditions. But those contracts are the reason why avex can only publish songs in Japan.
the songs available on iTunes are pretty much the same as songs credited with "(P) avex entertainment" in booklets because avex holds the phonetic copyright, they practically own the songs to do what they want. This isn't the case with newer songs. they only have the permission to release in a specific area (=Japan).

[Lebon14]

We don't know the exact conditions. But those contracts are the reason why avex can only publish songs in Japan.
the songs available on iTunes are pretty much the same as songs credited with "(P) avex entertainment" in booklets because avex holds the phonetic copyright, they practically own the songs to do what they want. This isn't the case with newer songs. they only have the permission to release in a specific area (=Japan).

The wording changed recently for those instances. At least in the SEB 240 booklet. It's now, for exemple, "(P) SCP Eurobeat Productions / avex music creative inc." instead of a straight "(P) avex entertainment" as it used to be. So, contracts must have changed a little bit recently.

[DarkSky]

We don't know the exact conditions. But those contracts are the reason why avex can only publish songs in Japan.
the songs available on iTunes are pretty much the same as songs credited with "(P) avex entertainment" in booklets because avex holds the phonetic copyright, they practically own the songs to do what they want. This isn't the case with newer songs. they only have the permission to release in a specific area (=Japan).

The wording changed recently for those instances. At least in the SEB 240 booklet. It's now, for exemple, "(P) SCP Eurobeat Productions / avex music creative inc." instead of a straight "(P) avex entertainment" as it used to be. So, contracts must have changed a little bit recently.

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